[Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Apr 6, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Owen Leonard wrote:
> > Are you talking about circulation? If by "swiping" you mean
> > "scanning," then of course that should work. That's what we do every
> > day. In circulation I don't find that entering "643" pulls up "1643"
> > at all.
>
> Two different searches are being discussed:
>
> [1] 'search patrons' - uses a "like" on the patron barcode, so a search of
> "123" will pull up barcode 123, 6123, 12345, etc.  This applies whether the
> barcode was type or scanned.
>

Perhaps a simple radio button setup with "exact" and "like" options in the
patron search interface would allow both types of searches without the
inconvenience of having to select one *or* the other via a syspref.

Kind Regards,
Chris
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